Resident Evil Reigns Abroad

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Afterlife is big internationally.

By Scott Collura

Resident Evil: Afterlife continues to kick the foreign box office's butt like Milla Jovovich taking out a horde of the undead. In fact, even Gordon Gekko could not overcome the RE franchise when it opened this past weekend abroad.

Variety reports that Afterlife made $24 million in its third outing on foreign screens, bringing in $154.1 million as of Sept. 26 in the 46 international markets it has been released to. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, meanwhile, made just $9.3 million over the Sept. 24-26 weekend.

Afterlife expanded to France during this past frame and held on strong in Germany and some Asian countries, including South Korea, where it was down just 25% in its second session, and Japan, where it displayed a hold of 45% in its third. It made $2.8 million there, bringing its total take in Japan to $38.3 million -- the film's highest-grossing territory to date.